Welcome
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Welcome to rho.org.uk, a little web site maintained by Rob Hague
(see below). There's a variety of stuff here - poke around and see
what you find.
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Rob Hague
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As mentioned above, this site is written and maintained by
Rob Hague, an expert at talking about himself in the third person.
Rob's
homepage can be found here.
In 2002, he tried (and succeeded) to
write a novel in
a month. At some point he'll take the logo off the front page. But not
yet.
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Software
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I occasionally write things that might be of some use to
other people (and isn't owned by some
huge corporation
or other). Some of this can
be found here.
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Mac OS X Odds & Sods
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I've had an Apple iBook for a while now, an have generally been very pleased with it. I've created a
virtual dumping ground for my musings about Mac OS X here.
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Links
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This page is a collection of
links to useful/interesting/fun stuff that I've come
across.
You may have arrived here by mistake; if you're an opera
fan, try roh.org.uk. If you're
looking for Reproductive Health Outlook, they're
here.
I also collaborate with Ben Chalmers to produce the
Imaginary Movie
Database, a site dedicated to those films that other sources
seem to miss. We've not updated in a while, but we'll start again Real Soon Now. Honest.
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About This Site and Whatnot
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This site is basically a homepage for Rob Hague (webmaster@rho.org.uk). I'm
happy to receive comments about the site, but please don't
send advertising material, ways to Make $$$ Now, or
Your CV.
If you want to keep track of updates to the site without the tiresome hassle
of actually visiting it, bung the RSS Feed
into your favorite news agregator (I use NetNewsWire Lite).
This site is generated by blosxom, with
the following plugins:
- theme
- rating
- meta
- seemore
- archives (modified)
- entriescache
- bloglikeapirate
(disabled)
- fixed
- blox
- interpolate_fancy
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Got Fink Working
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I've had another go at getting Fink working, and this time
succeeded. Last time I managed to miss out an entire step in
the instructions (fink scanpackages) - I must've been asleep
or something. Anyway, I'm installing xfree86, more out of
necessity than desire. I need to run Python Tkinter programs,
and although I have the native Mac OS X Tk installed, I cant
get Python to recognise it when building from source. I'm
trying out something
I've found on the Pythomac-SIG mailing list, but until I get
that to work, it's X11 or nothing. In any case, I'll probably
need it to run Gimp until the native version arrives.
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Mac 1, Unix 0
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Some success, some failure. On the plus side, I've now
played with all the "Digital Hub" apps successfully. I used
iMovie to splice together a couple of interview videos I have
to transcribe, imported Lou Reed's "Transformer" and the theme
from Amelie into iTunes (I'm listening to "Perfect Day" at
this very moment) and got a couple of photos into iPhoto. The
latter is the most interesting, as it involved getting my ZiO
SmartMedia reader working. I was a little disappointed that it
didn't work straight off, but when I went to Microtech's
site and downloaded the drivers, everything went
swimmingly.
I also downloaded the OS X 1.1.5 update. I'm impressed with
what I've seen of Software Update, and it installed the
upgrade with no problems. I've not seen the dramatic speed
increases everyone seems to be crediting it with, but then
again I've not really started stretching the iBook yet.
On the Unix side, things have been going a lot less
smoothly. I tried to install Fink in order to get
things like Python and Carbon Emacs and start getting real
work done. However, something went wrong. It's almost
certainly due to my dodgy install of the developer tools (I
downloaded the image from ADC, but it was corrupted. I
ploughed on with the install regardless, and ended up with
only half the tools. D'Oh.) I've removed it, and in the
process of downloading the image again (not going via a PC and
a dodgy CD-R this time).
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Got it
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I'm typing this entry on my shiny new iBook. I got it
Friday morning, but this is the first real chance I've had to
play with it. I've not really found much out yet. I had a
slightly worrying moment Friday night when I was populating
the hard drive with the restore CDs (not sure why they can't
ship the hard drive with the system set up on it). It
complained that the modem couldn't hear a dialtone, but seemed
to connect to Apple and submit my registration and iTools details
fine. However, when I started trying out apps, the modem
claimed to still be connected, even though it wasn't (I could
hear a dial tone on the line via my phone). Disconnecting just
hung. Anyway, I tried again this morning and it seems to work
fine (I'm using it now to SSH into the lab and type this), so
it's probably just a glitch in the installer.
The only other problem I've seen so far is the on
switch. It works fine, in that it turns the computer on and
off, but I swear I saw the switches on other iBooks glowing
(similar to the collar on the power connector). I'll check
this out.
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